Quotes about Focus

If someone asked you how to write your name, would you clench your teeth and spit out the letters one by one? If he lost his temper, would you lose yours as well? Or would you just spell out the individual letters? Remember—your responsibilities can be broken down into individual parts as well. Concentrate on those, and finish the job methodically—without getting stirred up or meeting anger with anger.

Throw away your books; no longer distract yourself: it is not allowed.

People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it, they even forget to wash or eat.

Do not waste the remainder of thy life in thoughts about others, when thou dost not refer thy thoughts to some object of common utility. For thou losest the opportunity of doing something else when thou hast such thoughts as these

What is outside the scope of my mind has absolutely no concern with my mind. Learn this lesson and thou standest erect.

What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

Don't cry anymore, she tells herself. Just do one thing at a time. Get from hour to hour and day to day like a frog jumping on lily pads.

We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

The pain gave me something definite to think about, something immediate. It was something to hold onto.

Though it's hard to concentrate on the idea of a future. She's too immersed in the present:

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

Every day, set your mind in the right direction. Find something to be grateful for.